Engraved title leaf and 19 numbered prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries. Engravings signed: Ioan. Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) invent.; Phls. Galle excud.; Ioan. Collaert sculp. Karel van Mallery has been identified in the British Museum collection online database as the likely printer of these plates. Nova reperta was one of the 30 sections of engraved plates issued collectively under the title Speculum diversarum imaginum speculativarum. Several of these sections were also issued separately. Engraved t.p., illus., including medallion map of America encircled by the names of Columbus and Vespucci. Plate 1, Vespucci landing in America; plate 4, "impressio librorvm"; plate 18, Vespucci observing the stars at night; plate 19, "scvulptvra in aes." A series of engravings, illustrating a number of important discoveries during the middle-ages and the renaissance, e.g. the magnet and compass, gunpowder and guns, printing, flour-mills, eyeglasses, etc. All plates carry descriptive texts in Latin, and are signed: Ioann Stradanus inuent. Phls Galle excud

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